“Gratitude” –|– Anthony Satori
“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
– Lionel Hampton
Gratitude
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The Pursuit of Happiness
“Happy Bird” –|– Anthony Satori
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
– Guillaume Apollinaire
The Pace of Sand
“Heart-Shaped Rock” –|– Anthony Satori
The thing about walking in sand is that you simply cannot rush. Each step takes time. Each step requires attention. You can choose a destination 10, 20, or even 100 feet away, but each step will only take you incrementally closer – slowly, deliberately – and you must make each stride mindfully and with care, so as to keep your balance and to keep yourself moving in the right direction. It is an exercise in patience. It is an exercise in presence. It is an exercise in Zen.
Sometimes you may think, “I will double my effort, triple it, maybe even multiply it five-fold.” But every such increase, even the most emphatic, tends to add at most maybe 5 or 10 percent to your speed – certainly not enough to be worth the additional expenditure of energy, not to mention the attendant elevation of stress, both physical and mental. Therefore, in the end, you eventually discover that your best strategy is merely to take it slow, to expend a reasonable amount of effort with each new step, and to move forward with calm, intention, and purpose – at the pace the sand will allow.
One of the delightful benefits, of course, of walking in sand in such a mindful manner is that sometimes you see things that you might have missed otherwise. Like a rock… shaped like a heart.
Blue Sky
“Blue Sky” –|– Anthony Satori
“Love is space and time, measured by the heart.”
– Marcel Proust
Chords in Harmony
“Through the Leaves” –|– Anthony Satori
“I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in harmony inside, I think other things will happen in the same way. That would have sounded pretentious to me once, but I believe it now.”
– Gene Wilder
New Colors
“Blue Peacock” –|– Anthony Satori
“She told me a bit of madness is key, to give us new colors to see. Who knows where it will lead us? And that’s why they need us. So here’s to the rebels, the ripples from pebbles, the painters and poets and plays. And here’s to the fools who dream, as crazy as they may seem. And here’s to the hearts that break.”
– Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
When the Dawn is Still Dark
“Foggy Road” –|– Anthony Satori
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
Horses on a Green Field
“Horses on a Green Field” –|– Anthony Satori
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
– Haruki Murakami
A Truly Happy Life
“Magnolia in Bloom” –|– Anthony Satori
“One kind of happiness is to survive a storm at sea, and to reach the shore in safety. Another is to triumph over hardship. Another is moving up in wealth and strength and position. Or one can hope; there are so many hopes. Some human hopes succeed and others fail. But a truly happy life is happiness day by day.”
– Euripides
The Mystical Nature of Music
“Golden Conch Shell” –|– Anthony Satori
“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Some people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music playing very loudly on the radio.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
The music of the conch shell, for many cultures, has for millennia been the means for calling together the community for celebration, ritual, or a collective endeavor of some kind. For other cultures, it has represented a musical entreaty to communicate with the supernatural world. And for other cultures still, the conch produces nothing less than the sound from which the very universe was created.
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